When people who can’t think logically design large systems, those systems become incomprehensible. And we start thinking of them as biological systems. And since biological systems are too complex to…

It is hard for programmers who have only known the web to realize how incredibly awful it is compared to past platforms.This Archaeology of Errors is no place for the application programmers of old: i…

Experimental Philosophy http://alarmingdevelopment.org/?p=85#more-85…

I can’t help feeling nostalgic for the good old days before our thing went mainstream. Price of success I suppose, but now we have proclamations like “The world belongs to people who code. Those who…

The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs. Dr. Dobbs Journal, “Interview with Alan Kay”…

Who should I thank? My so-called “colleagues,” who laugh at me behind my back, all the while becoming famous on my work? My worthless graduate students, whose computer skills appear to be limited to d…

who have tied their preferred programming language into their identity http://npf.io/2014/10/why-everyone-hates-go/…

… EMACS is a good example of RMS’s ideal piece of software.  User written.  User modified.  Free.  Constantly improved and improving.  One of the most complex, powerful, and easy to use editors around…

…it is beneath the dignity of excellent men to waste their time in calculation when any peasant could do the work just as accurately with the aid of a machine. Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz…

isSo a tool which models the world ends up resembling that world as well Rob Warnock…

Now it’s done by everyone, with predictable results. https://www.simple-talk.com/opinion/geek-of-the-week/rob-pike-geek-of-the-week/…